Just as he was about to kill the horse, Zhang Chi suddenly felt something in the corner of his eye. He turned his head and took a look, and found that the turtle had completely changed his appearance. Now he no longer grunted, and his four legs were no longer weak, including his mental state.
They are not as depressed as before.
"I'm here!"
Zhang Chi found that Oogway suddenly taught him another lesson.
Zhang Chi had never seen any turtles, but he had seen a few tortoises. He originally thought that tortoises were similar to turtles in that they both crawled very slowly. Just like when everyone mentions turtles, one word pops up subconsciously:
slow.
The story of the tortoise and the hare has taken root in people's hearts.
But now Zhang Chi found that there was a problem with his cognition. The turtle in front of him was not crawling slowly, at least it was much faster than he thought.
So Zhang Chi held a sharp knife in one hand, and the sharp knife was pointed at the horse's neck, ready to prick it, but it didn't look like it was going to prick it yet.
At this moment, Zhang Chi's eyes fell on the turtle, watching the turtle crawling around there, specifically looking for grass with grass seeds to eat. After eating one piece, he moved to another piece.
If it encounters a cow, the turtle will know the situation and get out of the way, and will hide in a place where there are no cows to pick up grass seeds to eat.
He stared at it stupidly for a while, waiting for Zhang Chi to come back to his senses. It was almost half an hour, and all of this time was spent looking at the turtle.
"I go!"
Zhang Chi felt that time had passed a little too long, so he didn't want to waste time here. The cows were killed anyway, and as for the horses, it wouldn't be too late to kill them tomorrow.
So he packed up his things and took out the gourd. When he was about to go back, he thought for a moment and threw the turtle and the horse out of the gourd.
Without even looking at it, Zhang Chi went back to the house.
After entering the house, he found that Melika was still sleeping, so Zhang Chi quietly got into bed.
When I opened my eyes again, the sky was already dimly lit.
After getting up and doing the same thing as before, Zhang Chi changed his clothes and rode up Chiyan Mountain to inspect the pasture. There was no problem here. Then he went to the west pasture. He didn't inspect the pasture, but just asked about the situation of the pasture.
When I returned home, I started making breakfast.
Waiting for Melika to come down, the couple sat at the table to have breakfast. Zhang Chi said that he was going to buy some beef and get some for his uncle's family.
Although Merica is smart, she has no mood to care about such things. She has cows herself, but there are not many cows suitable for eating now, so she has to buy beef from time to time.
As for how to buy it and at what price, ordinary housewives may care about it, but Melika doesn't care at all. She is not a housewife, and she won't pay attention to such trivial matters. In fact, that's right. If she has the time,
Women like Melika have already earned a lot of money.
So after dinner, Zhang Chi was about to leave. Only then did he remember that his pickup truck had been stolen and that he had been driving his wife's SUV during this time.
Zhang Chi returned to the house: "Daughter-in-law, give me some money, I'll buy a second-hand pickup truck."
Melika put down the account book in her hand and looked at Zhang Chi: "I said you have been silent."
"I forgot, there were too many bad things during this period," Zhang Chi said.
It’s not that Zhang Chi doesn’t have money in his gourd, he still has some money, but it’s not necessary to use it to buy himself a car. The money he has is for emergencies, and now this matter is obviously not an emergency, so the money to buy a car is
You really have to ask Melika for it.
It’s not that Zhang Chi is a bad person, it’s that Zhang Chi really doesn’t like doing these things.
The United States is not like in China. After you take your salary and pay taxes, you can spend the money as you like. As long as you don't risk it, you can do whatever you want.
But it doesn’t work here. Many things have to be accounted for. They are said to be family, but in fact they are small tax pools. How much tax can be reduced according to how much money is spent. Each level is different. In the past, Zhang Chi had less money.
are pitiful and are running in debt.
But starting from today, these things will become complicated, to the extent that Zhang Chi doesn't want to understand them, so almost all the family's expenses are controlled by Melika.
How else can I say that Zhang Chi’s wife is worth it? Not only is she a business strategist, but she is also an accountant in life, and she is also the manager of the ranch. She does multiple jobs at once, and they all do not get paid. Zhang Chi
Now he has become a hands-off shopkeeper and a big boss.
Melika went upstairs, then took out a card and handed it to Zhang Chi: "There are almost 60,000 yuan here. If it's not enough, just tell me."
"That's enough. A second-hand car in average condition will do."
There is no discrimination against second-hand cars here, nor does it say that buying a second-hand car means you don’t have money or anything. The American car culture is well developed, and many children’s first car in life is a second-hand car. In addition, the supervision is strict, even if it is a scam.
, and it won’t cause anything too outrageous. It’s impossible to say that the final cost of buying a second-hand car is more than that of a first-hand car, so everyone is not disgusted with choosing a second-hand car and dealing with second-hand car dealers.
The person who contacts used car dealers in China is naturally Li Qiao, who else could it be besides him?
So we agreed that it would be within 60,000 yuan, and left the rest to Li Qiao.
Zhang Chi stayed in the town for a while and asked who was going to Folsom. However, he was not very lucky today. After waiting for almost an hour, he met a farmer going to Folsom and took a ride with him.
Zhang Chi arrived at Folsom and then went to Li Qiao's car dealership.
When I arrived at the car dealership, I found that Li Qiao was busy receiving a customer.
Li Qiao also saw Zhang Chi, raised his head and said hello to Zhang Chi, pointing to the sofa not far away.
Zhang Chi understood and went over to sit down.
It was already about ten minutes after Li Qiao finished his business.
"Sorry, I'm a little busy today," Li Qiao said with a smile.
Zhang Chi said: "Business is good."
"You really caught up. I don't know why, but I'm very busy today," Li Qiao said.
"Why, I want to buy a pickup truck again, who will drive it?"
Zhang Chi said: "Didn't I tell you that I lost my last pickup truck?"
"When did it happen?" Li Qiao really didn't know about this.
Zhang Chi said briefly.
Li Qiao smiled bitterly and said: "Hey, there is no way. Losing a car here is like losing a bicycle in our country."
"Stop talking nonsense. What kind of bicycle in China costs tens of thousands of dollars? Have you chosen it? If you have chosen it, take me to see it. If you have not chosen it, take me to choose it." Zhang Chi said with a smile.
Li Qiao nodded and stood up: "Let's go, I'll help you choose a car. It's a bit old, but it's in good condition. It's run 50,000 to 60,000 miles...".
Li Qiao talked as he walked, Zhang Chi listened carefully.
The two of them soon arrived at the car.
The car is an old Dodge pickup truck. It must have been at least eleven or twelve years ago when it left the factory. However, the car has been well protected. According to Li Qiao's introduction, most of the paint on the car is original paint, which means that it is ten years old.
There will be no major incidents in the coming year.
"Isn't this car very good?"
Zhang Chi felt a little dissatisfied. It was not that the appearance of the car was a bit old, but that he felt that the displacement of the car's engine was not large enough. The displacement of about 4.00%, when used in the ranch, was the same as the displacement of a few.00% of the engine used on domestic roads.
Like a small car.
Apart from looking like a car, it can't do anything else.
"This is the point of you getting to know me. Let's go and take you to see some good things."
Li Qiao proudly pulled Zhang Chi to a somewhat remote place.
Zhang Chi was a little dumbfounded when he found himself standing next to a broken car.
"What do you mean when I say this?"
Li Qiao said with a smile: "You still don't understand what this means? Although this car was hit and destroyed, the engine is still intact, and this engine has only run less than 20,000 miles, a 5.7-liter one...".
"Hey, I came here to buy a fully assembled car. You got two of them for me to build together?" Zhang Chi felt that his brain was getting bigger.
Li Qiao said: "Do you think others can take advantage of this good thing? If you hadn't always given me some beef or something, I would have ignored you. Who wouldn't want this good thing? It's just a little trouble, and you can save more than 10,000 yuan."
Okay, if you don’t want to save this money, I’ll take you to see another one.
You have to understand, don't look at this car being hit like this, it was hit from behind, the front face hit the tree, it didn't take much force, you are lucky, the only engine left in this car can be used
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Zhang Chi thought for a while and felt that this made sense. A genuine 5.7 Dodge with less than 20,000 miles on it was really worth more than this.
Since Li Qiao said so, Zhang Chi nodded and bought an old car and an engine to start saving cars.
After paying the money, Zhang Chi drove the old car to the scrapped car. Someone helped use a tripod and an iron hoist to install the dismantled engine into the compartment of the old pickup truck.
Li Qiao introduced a repair shop to Zhang Chi. It was not in Folsom, but an hour's drive away. It was a repair shop run by a Chinese. The price was reasonable, the workmanship was good, and most importantly, people Li Qiao knew could trust it.
When I drove there, I originally thought that the work would take a day or two, but who knew that as soon as Zhang Chi arrived, work would start on the other side.
After more than two hours of welding and sawing, the new engine was replaced.
Zhang Chi didn't take any money. It turned out that the replaced engine was considered as the labor cost. The price was already quite favorable. As for the craftsmanship, you can see it now. You have to drive the car for a while to know.
Just like that, Zhang Chi drove back in the new car he had saved.
On the way, Zhang Chi took out the beef. Following the order of the road, he first went to Li Qiao's house and delivered about twenty kilograms of beef. When he arrived at Li Qiao's house, Li Qiao hadn't come back yet. Then Li Qin, who was doing business, came back.
, when he saw Zhang Chi coming over, he insisted on taking Zhang Chi to have dinner at home.
After finally leaving Li Qiao's house, he turned around and went to my aunt and uncle's house. They also gave about twenty kilograms of beef, and naturally gave all the beef offal and other things to my aunt.
The aunt left Zhang Chi to eat, but Zhang Chi had no choice but to help him with the work in the restaurant for a while. After dinner, he took some washed beef offal, beef intestines, beef heart, tripe, etc.
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When we returned to Amber, it was already past ten o'clock in the evening.
Look at how busy this day is, it’s all about things.